Advent Calendar - day 9

Christmas reading

I am not really a person who reads Christmas novels. I have read, maybe the most famous one, Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol. Otherwise, I have no real interest in specific Christmas reading, unless they are nonfiction.

I thought it would be interesting though, to check out which seasonal stories are available. I found the following on Wikipedia (I am sure there are others as well):

Novels

• Agatha Christie, Hercule Poirot's Christmas - which I read recently

• Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol - which I have read

• Charles Dickens, The Chimes

• Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth

• Charles Dickens, The Battle of Life

• Charles Dickens, The Haunted Man and The Ghost's Bargain

• Janet Evanovich, Visions of Sugar Plums

• Frederick Forsyth, The Shepherd

• Jostein Gaarder, The Christmas Mystery

• John Grisham, Skipping Christmas

• Maureen Johnson, John Green and Lauren Myracle, Let It Snow

• C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - which I have read

• Christopher Moore, The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror

• Kate Douglas Wiggin, The Birds' Christmas Carol

Short stories

• Hans Christian Andersen, "The Fir-Tree"

• Truman Capote, "A Christmas Memory" (published in Mademoiselle)

• John Cheever, "Christmas is a Sad Season for the Poor"

• Agatha Christie, The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding

• Agatha Christie, A Christmas Tragedy

• Fyodor Dostoevsky, "A Christmas Tree and a Wedding"

• Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree" (Mal'chik u Khrista na yolke) (from A Writer's Diary)

• Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle"

• Nikolai Gogol, "Christmas Eve" (from Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka)

• O. Henry, The Gift of the Magi

• E. T. A. Hoffmann, "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" (Nussknacker und Mausekönig)

• Leo Tolstoy, "Papa Panov's Special Christmas" (translation of Saillens)

• Dylan Thomas, A Child's Christmas in Wales

• Philip Van Doren Stern, The Greatest Gift

• Kurt Vonnegut, While Mortals Sleep (book of short stories)

  
  

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I got a little bit curious on Fredrick Forsyth's The Shepherd which seems to be a little bit of a ghost story. I might try that one for Christmas.

As for the short stories it would be interesting to read H.C. Andersen's The Fir-Tree. His stories are always related to society and thought worthy.

Dostoyevsky is a favourite so it would be interesting to read his two attemps on a Christmas story.

The same goes for Tolstoy.

The Nutcracker and the Mouse King by E. T. A. Hoffmann is the short story on which Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker is based. I like Hoffmann and it would be interesting to read the story. I love the music by Tchaikovsky, but I find the ballet a little bit boring.

Do you have any specific novels or short stories that you read for Christmas. Please let me know.